Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ifGoingToCrashDont@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep. Not a single non-profit or open-source related position in her CV

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  • Contend6248@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You gotta start somewhere, just give her a chance, we’ll see if she fucks up or not

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      She smells of glass cliff to me. We’ll see.

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• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve known Mozilla being great wouldn’t last forever, and there it is. Someone from those companies at the helm? Here comes the enshitification.

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hard to say. You kind of want someone that was part of a successful product. And successful for-profit products are almost always menaces.

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    • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, but hiring someone who's good at making for-profit "services" successful generally means you want your product to be for-profit.

      And as you say, successful for-profit companies are often menaces.

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    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Would you call any of those successful products ‘good’ tho? Yes they have made a lot of money but at the same time…2 of 3 are straight up evil. Ebay…eh. Could be worse. Thats all I can say there. Paypal has straight up stolen people’s money on countless occasions and gotten away with it. Then there was that huge violin fiasco. Airbnb is straight up a part of destroying the housing market, they know this, they don’t care.

      I get it, most big companies are ‘menaces’ like you say but…these are absolutely horrible companies responsible for true evil and, odds are, he’s going to bring that energy to Mozilla.

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      • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t really disagree, but what do you want as an organization, someone that built a “good” product that nobody ever used and fell into obscurity? Or someone that built a product that attracted and retained millions of users that you might consider “bad”? And tbh, most of the “bad” from these products is just because of their size and monopoly, which would arguably be a good problem to have for Mozilla.

        Probably an easy choice if I was on the board.

        Also, not that it matters to our discussion but just as a minor correction, the new CEO is a woman.

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      • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Airbnb actually provides a useful service, unlike PayPal which only extracts fees

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We can version freeze forever. Anything that won’t work in 2023 firefox is probably trash anyway.

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    • netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you can’t. There are cert stores, new protocols and ciphers, and eventually u patched zero days.

      I know this because I’ve been playing with a g3 powerboat and all the browsers at this point are no longer maintained to support the above things as of last year. The last person working on it gave up

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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not much of problem. Run in a VM, disable certificate validation. Html5 and javascript is still going to last a long long time. Anything that can’t run with that is soydev shit and you don’t need it.

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    • LibreFish@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Called palemoon, except version freeze is much older.

      Anything else will goatsy your computer to all forms of zero days.

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah the Airbnb, PayPal, eBay pedigree has me more concerned than anything. I wouldn’t want any of Mozilla’s stuff to be anything close to these things.

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• 0x2d@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what happened with ebay?

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  • olorin99@kbin.earth ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well there was this thing. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/29/ebay-executive-sentenced-couple-harassment-newsletter

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    eBay banned NFTs, I’m onboard with eBay.

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